A whole series about sports, and not one page needs charging.
Big-format activity books built around the one thing your kid already won’t stop talking about. Word searches with real terminology. Mazes worth finishing. Jokes bad enough to repeat at dinner.
Start with the sport they’re already obsessed with.
Five books, one format. The word searches use real terminology, the coloring pages let them design their own jerseys and mascots, and the fun facts are the kind a kid interrupts you to read out loud.
Football
4.8★ · 56 ratings
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Baseball
4.9★ · 46 ratings
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Basketball
4.7★ · 47 ratings
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Hockey
4.6★ · 61 ratings
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Soccer
4.6★ · 23 ratings
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Paperback, 8.5 × 11 inches, printed and shipped by Amazon. Buying two? Different sports, same format — nobody argues.
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Forty gods, heroes and monsters, in black and white.
The first Cheeky Reads coloring book. Every character gets a full page to color in, facing a page that says who they actually are — what they rule, who they’re related to, a fact worth repeating, and a joke that will get repeated regardless.
Zeus and Athena are in there. So are Atalanta, Bellerophon, the Hydra, and a griffin.
What’s in every activity book
Same six ingredients, rebuilt from scratch around whatever the book is about. A hockey maze has a Zamboni in it. That’s the whole idea.
Word searches
Built from real terminology, not filler words. They learn the vocabulary sideways.
Coloring pages
Design your own jersey, helmet, mascot. Blank enough that the kid makes the decisions.
Mazes
Hard enough to be worth finishing. Easy enough that nobody quits in tears.
Word scrambles
Short, fast wins. The page a kid does first and then asks for another one.
Tic-tac-toe
The two-player page. Useful in a waiting room, a car, or the twenty minutes before dinner.
Jokes & fun facts
Written for a seven-year-old’s sense of humor. A low bar, cleared enthusiastically.
Also on the shelf
The sports books are the ones people find first. These are the ones they come back for.
Greek Mythology
4.8★ · 13 ratings
Gods, heroes, monsters. The book for the kid who has already asked you three questions about the Minotaur that you could not answer.
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Reptiles
4.7★ · 8 ratings
Snakes, lizards, turtles, crocodiles. Written for the kid who wants one as a pet and is working on you slowly.
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Word Search For Kids 8–10
5.0★ · 69 ratings
102 puzzles, categories a kid actually recognises, and a joke at the bottom of every page. Nothing seasonal, so it doesn’t go stale in January.
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Word Search For Girls
5.0★ · 10 ratings
Sixty category puzzles. There’s a Boys edition too, and they’re the same difficulty — only the categories change.
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My First 100 Words
Early vocabulary
Grouped into animals, food, shapes, numbers and emotions. Sized for a toddler’s grip and the hundredth read-through of the week.
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My First 100 Animal Words
Early vocabulary
The follow-up, all animals. One hundred of them, big and bright, for the kid who points at everything with fur on it.
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Print a few pages before you buy anything.
Give us an email and we’ll send a sample pack pulled straight out of the books — a word search, a maze, and a coloring page. Print it, hand it over, and see whether it actually holds their attention. Then decide.
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A kid who loves hockey does not want a generic maze.
Most children’s activity books are filler. A hundred pages of interchangeable puzzles, a cartoon on the cover, no real idea who is holding it. They get finished in a waiting room and left there.
So every Cheeky Reads book picks one thing a kid is already obsessed with and goes all the way in. Real terminology in the word searches. Facts worth interrupting an adult to read out loud. Coloring pages where the kid designs the jersey instead of staying inside somebody else’s lines.
Paper does a few things a tablet can’t. It doesn’t autoplay the next thing. It survives being dropped. And when it’s finished, it’s finished — which turns out to be the part parents actually want.
There are more where these came from.
New titles land through the year, usually on whatever a kid somewhere has decided is the most important subject in the world. Dinosaurs are next, probably.